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Wooden tools hint at fire use by early Neanderthals
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Posted on 02/16/2018 9:34:56 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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Detail of the handle of digging stick no. 2 on the paleosurface U2 of the Poggetti Vecchi site. PNAS
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02/16/2018 9:34:56 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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02/16/2018 9:35:59 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
So easy even a cave man can do it.
To: SunkenCiv
Wooden tools 171,000 years old that didn’t rot away? Color me a bit skeptical.
Fire also hardens wooden tools; it is not just used to shape the tool. I suspect they did it more for hardening than shaping. But what do I know?
To: SunkenCiv
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02/16/2018 9:56:50 AM PST
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buckalfa
(I was so much older then, but I'm younger than that now.)
To: buckalfa
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02/16/2018 10:06:06 AM PST
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bert
(K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
To: SunkenCiv
I’m thinking either a rake or hoe handle; early True Temper.
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02/16/2018 10:12:27 AM PST
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WinMod70
To: kaehurowing
Whenever I chat up Neanderthal chicks,
my Cro-Magnon gonads keep stalling.
It’s not a bad lick how her brow is too thick,
but that New Jersey accent’s appalling.
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02/16/2018 10:18:09 AM PST
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sparklite2
(See more at Sparklite Times)
To: buckalfa; bert
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02/16/2018 10:19:04 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
"They're Tiki torches, goes with this South Pacific theme I had landscaped with the Jacuzzi."
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Wooden tools 171,000 years old that didnt rot away? Concur. I don't think we date things as accurately as we think we do. I doubt that these sticks are anywhere near that age.
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02/16/2018 10:56:39 AM PST
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ClearCase_guy
(The revolution will not be televised (at least, not by CNN).)
To: sparklite2
Was she Bertha Butt? One of the Butt sistas?
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posted on
02/16/2018 11:38:05 AM PST
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freedumb2003
(obozo took 8 years to try to destroy us. Trump took 1 to rebuild us. MAGA!!)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
In anaerobic conditions, such as very wet or waterlogged soils, the lack of oxygen drastically slows the processes of decomposition.
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02/16/2018 11:39:15 AM PST
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Taipei
To: Taipei
In anaerobic conditions, such as very wet or waterlogged soils, the lack of oxygen drastically slows the processes of decomposition.It's how you get petrified wood. Just takes much more time.
To: Taipei
Understand about anaerobic conditions, but 171,000 years? Also, look at the soil in the photo. That doesn’t look like a peat bog but regular soil.
To: ProtectOurFreedom
>>Understand about anaerobic conditions, but 171,000 years? Also, look at the soil in the photo. That doesnt look like a peat bog but regular soil.<<
I am not a biologist nor do I play one on TV nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn last night but I am going to guess there is a reason why they analyze the actual material and not pictures of them.
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02/16/2018 1:09:18 PM PST
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freedumb2003
(obozo took 8 years to try to destroy us. Trump took 1 to rebuild us. MAGA!!)
To: SunkenCiv
I’ve never considered Boxwood to be a timber.
I guess timber is British for wood?
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02/16/2018 1:18:31 PM PST
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Rebelbase
( Hillary, DNC, DOJ and FBI colluded with a British National to influence the 2016 Pres. election)
To: SunkenCiv
Aahhh, Im just a simple housewife, but isnt it well established that the Neanderthals thrived during the Ice Age? Youd assume that, barring the discovery of a thick pelt, fire use would be a given.
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02/16/2018 4:07:07 PM PST
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To Hell With Poverty
(Refreshing? Trump makes me feel like I just freebased a York Peppermint Pattie!)
To: To Hell With Poverty
Yeah. There’s a weird racist bias against Neandertal, been that way since Virchow decided the fossil remains were 18th century naked cossacks who picked that cave to starve in.
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02/17/2018 3:10:08 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
The thing that has always bothered me about our Neanderthal buds, is how static their tool kits remained over the Eons.
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02/17/2018 3:37:44 AM PST
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Little Bill
(VN 65 - 68)
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